On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt < subversion-20...@ryandesign.com> wrote:
> > On Apr 30, 2010, at 04:52, Ravi Roy wrote: > > > I am writing a custom hook (pre-commit) to find out the size of the > transaction for certain size and then allow / disallow commit. But I am not > sure what is the structure under /db/transactions which should be checked > for size ? > > You don't need to know. :) Instead, use the "svnlook" program to inspect > the transaction for the information you need. For example, "svnlook changed" > to see what changed in the transaction, and "svnlook cat" to get the > contents of individual files from the transaction, whose bytes you can then > sum up. > > Thankd Ryan. Don't you think svnlook cat -t $T > contentsfile would be too havy for pre-commit hook to handle and make repo commits slow :-) Suppose somebody is trying to commit 100 MB of file which I want to disallow in principle, I think this will cause performace issues. Thanks -RR
